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As for books, I never had the indignation bestowed upon me of being told what I was and was not allowed to read. These were words, after all, not knives or rattlesnakes. In fact, such a vicious attempt at separating me from my precious books might have developed early combat skills.
The incendiary books I was absorbing actually did end up on a thought crime list. Most of you probably missed the annual celebration at the beginning of this month called Banned Books Week. Since I didn't know whether I was supposed to burn a book or read it, and since Walmart didn't designate any special decorations aisle for the event, I marked the occasion by reviewing a partial list that was being passed around the Internet (www.adlerbooks.com/banned.html) of books that have been banned in the United States at some point. A large portion of the list was a reflection of my own childhood reading lists, both school and personal. There are a surprising number of Judy Blume covers on the list. Oh, the horrors of "Blubber"!
In addition to the titles on the list, I suspect that a new subgroup of "obviously banned books" has emerged in our paranoid, Nanny state, political correctness-plagued culture. This long-standing
personal suspicion was recently confirmed in a conversation I had with a teacher. A few of us who grew up around the same time were discussing books on our respective school reading lists. Forward-thinking books that were also intellectual staples of my education came up – "1984," "Lord of the Flies," "Brave New World," "Crime and Punishment" and all things Ayn Rand were brought up. The teacher laughed at the thought of such political dynamite being allowed in today's classrooms, especially in light of the No Child Left Behind standards requiring the learning level of the class to reflect the ability and potential of the lowest common denominators in the room.
"Can you imagine if books like that were allowed in schools these days?" he asked.
That's when it hit me, particularly in regards to Orwell's "1984" and the socially saturated catchphrase, "Big Brother": Have the worlds described in those books actually caught up with us faster than we thought they would? And in regard to Mr. Brother, how many people who use that phrase have actually read "1984" or even know what the phrase refers to? Is "Big Brother" our real world "Who is John Galt?" in Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"?
I think most of the banned books on that list suffer from a similar and much more harmful form of ignorance. I find it inconceivable that a rational, educated person would read any of the books on that list from cover to cover, understand what it is that they just read and still have the free-thinking, assassinating audacity to call them napalm for young minds. The very thought of words — the most beautiful instigators of deep thought — being seen as harmful as a razor in Halloween candy is unimaginable to me (and I have quite an imagination).
With a never-ending plague of political correctness threatening to destroy every last free-thinking brain cell that hasn't been preprogrammed to fire in a socially appropriate way, I wonder what the criteria will be for the next class of banned books.
Here's my best shot at content that will be a strict no-no in the near future:
• Any mention of God or Jesus (unless the author is expressly mocking them).
• Any mention of any other deity (unless the author is using them to expressly mock God or Jesus).
• Any mention of the Constitution, Founding Fathers or anyone else who may have acted in a manner unbefitting of a properly subservient subject.
• A noticeable lack of sexual references and curse words.
• A plot line with "too strong" of a focus on the heterosexual nuclear family unit.
Any combination of the above, of course, will be scandalous to the delicate, easily brainwashed young minds of our future. Am I exaggerating? I hope so. Because if we continue to obsess about lowering the thought level of every classroom to the lowest common denominator and promoting the natural assumption that free thought is dangerous thinking, the next generations will find themselves living in the plot lines of the banned books that were deemed too sensitive for their socially protected eyes.
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Later this week, leaders of West Virginia's Democrat Party plan to go to Washington to meet federal officials. Their goal is to persuade liberals in President Barack Obama's administration and Congress to pay more attention to our state's needs.
Especially regarding the coal industry, that simply is not happening. Obama and his cronies are opposed to mining and reasonably priced electricity.
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The same proposal would give counties more power over their own affairs, pending ratification by the the Legislature. The proposal is the newest of three plans the state's Constitutional Revision Commission is considering for giving "home rule" powers to Alabama's counties.
"This would be a form of checks and balances," said Howard Walthall, a Cumberland School of Law professor who is advising the commission.
The Constitutional Revision Commission is a 16-member committee that has been appointed to reshape the Alabama Constitution of 1901, article by article. This year, the commission is expected to rewrite the Constitution's wording on local government.
Alabama grants its counties few powers, and has required state laws or amendments to be passed for matters as simple as the establishment of a county insect control program. It's one reason the 1901 Constitution has swelled to 376,000 words. County commissioners and constitutional reform advocates have been pushing for more county home rule for years.
The commission had been considering two proposals for home rule, one drafted by the Association of County Commissions of Alabama and another drafted by the anti-poverty group Alabama Appleseed. But on Friday, the commission's staff unveiled four options.
One, called the "delegation" option, would directly delegate powers to counties. It bears some resemblance to the Alabama Appleseed proposal. Another option, called the "interim powers" option, would let counties run their own affairs while the Legislature is out of session, with lawmakers able to review those decisions while in session.
Commissioners quickly rejected the "classification" option, a plan that would have created different classes of counties, based on population, each with a different set of powers. Some said that proposal wasn't really a form of home rule.
"Creating a classification system is just another fiction," said Sen. Bryan Taylor, R-Prattville, a commission member. He said the system would give the appearance that the Legislature was passing statewide laws when in fact it would be passing laws aimed at single counties.
The remaining option — ratification — would allow county commissions to ratify any state law that would change their makeup or basic functions. In turn, the proposal would give counties the power to legislate local matters, but those decisions would require ratification by the Legislature when it's in session.
Walthall described ratification as a "collaborative" approach that lets county commissions and lawmakers check each other's powers.
Sonny Brasfield, director of the Association of County Commissions of Alabama, said the proposal was "the heart and soul of home rule." He said county commissions need to be able to reject unwanted changes to their own structure and staff.
Rep. Paul DeMarco, R-Homewood, disagreed. He pointed out that the Legislature created a county manager position for Jefferson County after the county's debt crisis began.
"Generally it's been one of the best things for Jefferson County, despite opposition from the County Commission," he said.
The commission deferred a vote on the remaining three options until its next meeting in February. Whatever the commission decides, its recommendation will go to the Legislature for approval. If it passes, it will take the form of a constitutional amendment to be voted on statewide — probably in 2014.
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Nuon Chea's absence caused the tribunal on Tuesday to announce the temporary suspension of their joint trial, which began in June 2011.
The U.N.-assisted tribunal is trying the pair and former Khmer Rouge foreign minister Ieng Sary for crimes against humanity and other offenses. The communist group's fanatical efforts to realize a utopian society led to the deaths of some 1.7 million people from starvation, disease, overwork and execution from 1975 to 1979.
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Kanye West pulled a Dr. Evil on a TMZ cameraman today.
The rapper arrived at LAX and barely gave a reporter the chance to give him props on "Yeezus" before telling him to zip it. To hush. To not dare say another word.
"Don't talk to me," Kanye says in the video below. "I don't want to hear paparazzi talk to me or anybody I know ... tell everybody never talk to anyone that anyone knows... don't talk to themselves..."
Watch the (one-sided) exchange now and someone go get Kanye a chill pill. You knocked up Kim Kardashian, dude. You're basically married to the paparazzi at this point.
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Everyone ought to quit talking to him and we should stop listening to him!
Bet that would cramp his style. I agree, marry the money-grabbing scamming ho. He's a big boy; he got himself into this. People don't like him and people don't like her. Everyone quit listening to his rap.
Yes,he is.. Only a matter of time before he assaults her. He's a very angry,self entitled person. She should of figured that out when his ex gf's accused him of abuse,when he publicly insulted T.Swift,and when he charged a female pap. Kim gotta lot more than she bargained for. All she cares about are $$$signs.


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Game over, Carol BartzSeptember 30, 2010: 11:45 AM ET
Yahoo's stock price is abysmal, employee morale is low, and top-level executives are fleeing. What's left? An Internet property slowly limping to its death and a mouthy CEO with no vision. Her days are numbered.
"I don't want to hear any crap about something magical that the fine people of Yahoo are supposed to do in this short time. So f*ck off." -- Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, May 2010
At the height of the dot-com boom, Yahoo was considered one of the hottest web properties, a go-to "portal" for search, email, and media and a lofty stock price to prove it.
Fast-forward a decade, and Yahoo (YHOO) is a company under siege, both from its competition and from within. Its stock closed yesterday at an abysmal $14.34, second quarter net revenue grew by an anemic 2% over last year, and analysts at ThinkEquity value the company's core business at "less than nothing." Morale at its Sunnyvale, California headquarters is reportedly in the gutter and top-level brass are leaving in droves. On Friday, according to All Things D, Yahoo is expected to officially announce the departure of several top executives, including executive vice president Hilary Schneider, senior vice president of audience David Ko, and media vice president Jimmy Pitaro. This follows other recent key departures, like former vice president and editor-in-chief Srinija Srinivasan, who announced her resignation last month, and executive vice president Ash Patel, who left back in March.
At the center of the tempest remains 62-year-old CEO Carol Bartz. Since she assumed the position in January 2009, Bartz has shed areas no longer relevant to Yahoo's core business -- outsourcing Yahoo Search to Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo Shopping to PriceGrabber, Yahoo Personals to IAC and selling job search engine HotJobs to Monster and business-oriented collaboration suite Zimbra to VMWare. She has also expanded Yahoo's editorial operations, including its $100 million purchase of Associated Content.
But besides restructuring and reshuffling management, Bartz has done little more than ruffle feathers.
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In recent months, Bartz has become more notable for shooting off her mouth to the media than for innovating. In May at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, when aggressively confronted by Michael Arrington onstage, she concluded her appearance by belittling him and finally, cursing at him.
Earlier this month, at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference, her attempt to defend the embattled company failed miserably. Though Yahoo Mail remains twice as large as Hotmail, user product engagement has dropped, and Bartz placed much of the blame on consumers who now send pithier messages via social networks like Facebook. When asked about the dizzying turnover at the company, she said, "I can't tell you how many times I've gone to my assistant and said, 'Do you know who this person is?' and they're about six layers down."
While such frankness may have been passable at Autodesk, the design software company she led before moving to Yahoo, it's clearly not acceptable at a company where every word and action is dissected in the media.
"She's an idiot," says one large shareholder. "She swears at everybody, and is flip to everybody. She does that with employers, she does that with shareholders, and she does it to employees. That's not the way to win hearts and friends." Moreover, this shareholder says, Bartz simply doesn't have a handle on how to run an Internet company.
And according to the shareholder, it's Bartz's abrasive and dismissive behavior that's driving away high-ranking execs and making her an unpopular leader among her employees. At best, interactions with her are described as frustrating. At worst, they're completely unproductive.
What strategy?
More disturbing than Bartz's incapacity to handle herself professionally is an apparent lack of vision for the company. Bartz and her recent hire chief product officer Blake Irving have had trouble articulating what Yahoo, as a brand, stands for, even when asked repeatedly.
"Yahoo is a global series of web experiences across a variety of devices that gives people what they want," said Irving at a press conference earlier this month. "In content, it connects advertisers to an audience that is global in scope. Yahoo is all about delivering experiences to individuals that make them engage with each other. Folks [ask]: Are you a search company? A content company? A communications company? We would like to engage with people on the things that matter most to them."
Bartz's own explanation of Yahoo isn't much clearer.
"Yahoo is a company that is very strong in content," she said this past May. "It's moving towards the web of one. We have 32,000 variations on our front page module. We serve a million of those a day. It's all customized. Our click-through rate went up twice since we started customizing this. People come to check the things they like. 'You can just get it together.' Yahoo is one site people always stop at."
AllThingsD's John Paczkowski called Irving's response "the world's worst elevator pitch," and analysts agree that such a vague, amorphous definition just doesn't cut it. It could also describe any number of giant tech companies. Given Bartz's recent moves with HotJobs, Yahoo Shopping, and search, you'd think it should be easier than ever to provide a definition.
Gary Singer, CEO of branding firm Buyology, believes Yahoo has done a poor job of managing itself as a brand, describing the company, or what's left of it, as a motley collection of loosely-connected technology offerings that happen to be branded 'Yahoo.' "There's no cohesiveness, no personality, and no relationship," he says.
Really, what is Yahoo? The name itself once had a cool factor, but now it persistently raises questions of identity that Bartz and Irving can't answer. There's no question that Yahoo ceded every piece of real estate it owns: it's not the undisputed email leader (at least as far as product engagement goes), or search leader (Google leads with about 65% to Yahoo's 17%) or online portal.
As with any CEO role, it's not enough for Bartz to streamline her company, as she's arguably done. She needs to innovate with a long-term strategy beyond bringing a company's product line up to parity. But all evidence indicates Bartz doesn't really have one. So far, there has been no sign that Yahoo has an iPod-like innovation up its sleeve – the only new efforts it has disclosed are an upcoming Yahoo Mail redesign and an iPad app.
The creative void explains why Yahoo's Asian investments in Yahoo Japan, of which the company owns a 34.9% share, Alibaba.com (29% stake) and Alibaba Group (40% stake) are worth significantly more than Yahoo's core business and why Bartz herself appears keen on holding onto those shares, despite Alibaba's offer to buy some of them back.
What's next?
Earlier this week, AllThingsD reported that members of Yahoo's board convened an emergency meeting at company headquarters to discuss management issues and how to deal with them. At this point, pundits are speculating the board could appoint a choice second-in-command that would take over for Bartz once her contract runs out in 18 months.
But by then, it may be too late to reverse the course for Yahoo, its shareholders and the company's 13,000 employees, into becoming just another historical footnote in the growing list of fallen tech companies.


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East Fairmont's Jesse Roman leveled his competition during the Big 10 Conference championship last week at Lewis County High School.
Because of his dominance on the mat and his performance against Preston's Terrance Fanning, Roman earned his third straight conference championship.
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Last week we told you about a proposal that would extend the summer practice period for West Virginia high schools.
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On Tuesday, the weather turned cold, the wind blew and amongst the raindrops that fell a few snowflakes fluttered quietly to Earth.
It was as if it was a celebration of Asya Bussie being drafted on Monday night by the Minnesota Lynx, champions of the WNBA, with the third selection of the second round, the 15th overall pick of the draft.
HERTZEL COLUMN: Jackie Robinson's impact extends beyond baseball
It is Jackie Robinson Day as I sit here writing this today, and I feel as though I am doing it in a world gone mad.
Every player in Major League Baseball wore No. 42 on Tuesday in honor of Jackie Robinson, the man who took racism's best shot and integrated the game that was known then as the National Pastime even though it was as white a Ku Klux Klan robe.
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The Big 12 Conference announced its Scholar-Athlete of the Year recipients for the 2014 winter sport season, and West Virginia University senior Jess Harlee earns the honor for women's basketball.
Harlee was selected as the award winner based on a vote of each respective sport's head coaching group, with coaches not permitted to vote for their own student-athletes.
East can't overcome No. 7 Lincoln, falls, 4-0
Thunder clouds weren't the only thing looming over the East Fairmont (6-6) softball team Monday when the Lady Bees hosed No. 7 Lincoln. Joining the ominous clouds was a sense of urgency for energy that never showed up as Lincoln was able to shut out East Fairmont, 4-0.
Gyorko, Padres agree to extension
Jedd Gyorko, who hasn't hit much of anything with a .178 start on this season, hit the jackpot on Monday, signing a six-year contract extension with the San Diego Padres for $35 million with a one-year club option at $13 million.
HERTZEL COLUMN- Spring game showed defense has improved
From Dana Holgorsen's viewpoint, which was standing right behind the offense, West Virginia's Gold-Blue Spring Game on Saturday was a rousing success for it showed very little of what the Mountaineers will be in this coming season, probably not even showcasing the man who will direct the offense in the quarterback position.
WVU signs guard; Adrian arrested for DUI
There was something good and something bad for West Virginia men's basketball coach Bob Huggins this past weekend as Kansas junior college player Tarik Phillip committed to play for the Mountaineers but rising sophomore Nathan Adrian was charged with Under 21 DUI after he was stopped at 1:20 a.m. Sunday for an expired registration sticker.
FURFARI COLUMN- Most plays good, some not so good in Gold-Blue scrimmage
There appeared to be a fine mixture of plays, most good with some not so good, in last Saturday's West Virginia University's Gold-Blue football scrimmage.
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Oklahoma City is the most cost effective large city in the United States according to fDi Magazine's annual North America Cities of the Future report. Oklahoma City also ranks as the third most cost effective city in North America. fDi Magazine categorizes large cities as those with populations between 500,000 and 1 million.
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fDi Magazine's North American Cities of the Future 2009/10 shortlists, which took more than six months to research, involved the data collection of nearly 400 North American cities. A multitude of data factored into the report including, industrial rental and labor costs. Oklahoma City's office rental cost was one of the biggest positives in its cost effectiveness.
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Panhypopituitarism; Pituitary dwarfism; Recombinant human GH (rhGH); Acquired growth hormone deficiency; Congenital growth hormone deficiency; Somatropin
Definition of Growth hormone deficiency – children
Growth hormone deficiency refers to abnormally short height in childhood due to the lack of growth hormone.
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Growth hormone is produced in the pituitary gland, which is located at the base of the brain.
Children with growth hormone deficiency have a slow or flat rate of growth, usually less than 2 inches per year. The slow growth may not appear until a child is 2 or 3 years old.
Signs and tests
A growth chart is used to compare a child's current height, and how fast he or she is growing, to other children of the same age and gender.
A child's short stature will often affect self-esteem. Providing emotional support is an important part of treatment. Children may be teased by classmates and playmates. Family, friends, and teachers should emphasize the child's other skills and strengths.
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The earlier the condition is treated, the better the chance that a child will grow to be a near-normal adult height.
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Friend of and worker with Saint Alexander of Lyon. Imprisoned, tortured, and martyred during the persecutions of Marcus Aurelius. Though he never joined an order, Epipodius was a confirmed celibate bachelor, devoting his time to work with and for God. Betrayed to imperial authorities by a servant. Martyr.
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- May 1 - Poet Laureate Final Lecture. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry Natasha Trethewey will deliver her final lecture to close the spring literary season at the Library of Congress.
- May 21 - The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The celebration of an artist's work whose career reflects lifetime achievement in promoting song as a vehicle of musical expression and cultural understanding. The styles in which these works are composed reflect myriad contemporary traditions like rock, jazz, country, pop, blues, folk, and gospel. This year's recipient of the Gershwin Prize is Carole King.
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- November 12 - Science Summit at the Library of Congress. In December 2012, the Library sponsored the International Summit of the Book, which focused on general literacy and launched the Library of Congress Literacy Awards Program. The Science Summit, the second in a series, will address the importance of greater literacy in science. In future years, the Library will present summits devoted to civic literacy, geographical literacy and musical literacy.
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The family of a woman who was killed at a North Aurora assisted living facility is remembering her as a loving mother, daughter and friend.
Tomi Vandiver, 50, was found dead in an apartment at the Eden Supportive Living center at 311 S. Lincolnway Monday night. Police said she was the victim in a murder suicide, and the 58-year-old suspect in her slaying died after jumping out a third-story window at the center.
Vandiver's body was found inside the man's apartment. Police said she had been stabbed to death. While North Aurora police have not released the name of the man, Eden Supportive Living identified him as Jon Neel in a letter sent to Eden residents.
In a note to The Beacon-News, Vandiver's ex-husband said she was in declining health due to brain disease.
"But nothing could possibly prepare the family for the type of tragic death she suffered on Monday," Kraig Vandiver said. "We ask that you keep the entire family, especially her daughter and son in your thoughts and prayers. ... Thank you all for your condolences and support during the most difficult time in our lives."
Representatives from Eden said Vandiver had moved into the facility about four years ago. Vandiver had started dating Neel about a month ago, and police said she went to Neel's apartment on Monday evening to collect some belongings before going to meet with another man who lived in the building. She never showed up to meet the other man, police said.
"She was just a great girl," said Brenda Lawrence, director of the Eden Supportive Living apartments. "She kept to herself and she had a lot of friends. Everybody loved her."
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The city plans to use the money to widen, repave and improve the drainage on Georgia Avenue and some of the roads it connects with including Truett, Pollard, South Cook and Lake streets. The total cost of the work is estimated to be $303,000.
The federal funds come from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Community Development Block Grant Program.
The city could do a 20 percent match or $51,200, Mayor Owen Lowery told the members during Monday's meeting. However, at the public hearing about the project, Diane Glenn, a grant writer from East Alabama Regional Planning and Development Commission, said the higher the match, the better the chance the city might get the grant.
It brings the amount granted per resident down, said town clerk Pam Richardson.
Councilman Tommy Jones suggested the city commit 25 percent of the grant.
The council unanimously approved the larger than required commitment of about $75,000.
But while Ranburne's roads need work, the city's sales tax revenue is taking a hit.
"We're missing our parts store," said Councilman Larry Smith.
Mitchell's Auto and Used Cars, Value Foods and the Alabama Beverage Commission liquor store have all closed in the past few years, and the city's sales tax revenue has taken a hit, Lowery said.
In fiscal year 2012, the city took in $79,799 by June 30, Richardson said. By the same time this fiscal year, that amount had dropped to $69,992, she said.
The council members also heard that the fee for a contract with the Cleburne County Chamber of Commerce to join the Chamber's shop-local campaign, Keep it in Cleburne, will be $600 a year. The chamber will help the city promote its local businesses, Lowery said.
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How does one contact Moench to ask about his old work? Does he even want to be contacted? Failing that, does anyone have interviews he conducted where he mentions his FF work? He wrote 11 issues starting in 1980: FF219 and 222-231. Did he say anything in the comics press when he took it on? His "official" site has very little information and uses very old photos.
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I am gradually working on my perverse theory that The Fantastic Four, issues 1-321, forms a single story with a beginning, middle and end. The more I look at it in that light, the more important Doug Moench becomes. His 11 issues are usually remembered as "the bad issues just before John Byrne." And they are certainly jarring: they don't fit the easy going style that came before or after. Most fans either dislike them or forget them. But the closer I look, the more I love them. In several ways they are superior to Byrne's much lauded FF work.
To me, Moench has more layers. Byrne's effort all goes into the surface appearance and events, but Moench seems to care more about the characters. Comparing Byrne's 65(?) issues to Moench's 11 issues (opinions may vary):
- Byrne is easier to read.
- Byrne is more spectacular - i.e. more spectacle.
- Byrne's dialog is more theatrical - to me, his people sound like they belong on TV or movies, they don't sound real.
- Byrne had more issues to develop his themes.
- So Byrne sold better and is more fondly remembered.
- But Moench is truer to the established characters (Byrne ignored years of continuity)
- Moench shows more character development
- Moench's issues tell a more unified story
- Moench is more layered - he rewards a close inspection in a way that Byrne does not
- Moench's characters are far more likeable - to me (personal opinion, obviously)
- Moench is more realistic (the Bill Sienkiewicz art helped, but I find his dialog more believable)
- Moench, more than any other writer, gets to the core of what the FF are. This is opinion of course, but I speak as someone who has devoted a long time to making the FF work as a single, developing story. Moench really nails it.
Obviously, the long term development was not planned. I doubt that Kirby left a secret blueprint behind. The bigger story evolved almost by accident. but I am intrigued to know what Moench was thinking at the time. If he even remembers.
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Richard and Nancy Heath of Bloomingdale are very excited to announce the engagement of their daughter, Ericka Lee Heath, to Cameron R. Moody, son of Debra and Allen Moody of Saranac Lake.
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I am wondering if a Wheeler # 527 Pipercuttering tool is the best way to cut the sewer steel pipe that is in the basement floor? The sewer line that has the cleanout has the threads missing and no longer allows the drain to be capped off. I have attempted to cut this metal pipe with a sawzall but it barely scratched the surface of it after using two metal cutting blades.
Can someone help with how a Wheeler Pipecutter works and will it cut this pipe or is there a better tool to do this for a homeowner to use. It is a 4 inch pipe with a hub just above the cement floor and would like to get this project done. Seems there is little information on these tools or even what this metal pipe is made of. It must be very hard being a sawzall did nothing to it.
What will I need to replace it being I am going from the metal pipe to a plastic pipe being it will be two different materials and sizes will be different? Do they make a "Mission Coupler" that will fit the metal pipe as well as fit the pvc pipe and will it be tight enough to be able to tighten and loosen the clean out cap being they seem to get locked in place?
Any information would be helpful. I have broken up some of the cement floor around the pipe but trying to only open the floor large enough to get a tool in to cut the metal pipe.
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text: Willie Vogt Scheduling Downtime in the Future Farmer Iron All that telematics stuff could eventually change the way you think about maintenance. Published on: April 12, 2012 I've had a long-running dialog with folks - from farmers to economists - about downtime. I have never felt farmers really account for the cost of downtime properly, which encourages many to "go cheap" without understanding the true value of lost time. Everyone complains about the cost of service at a dealership, but the fact is reduced downtime will always make you money. What about "scheduled" downtime? With the rise of true telematics on farm equipment - which is still in its infancy - there will come a time that your dealer may be calling to schedule a service appointment. Perhaps you've hit a magic hour level and that calls for work. Or you may know something is "up" and have been putting it off because you are busy. It's a way to manage downtime, but of course knowing the true costs of an downed machine is important. Beyond the pain and headache of having a piece of iron stalled in the field is the true cost of idle machinery - seasonal yield and profit impacts. Depending on the timing of the breakdown, you could be looking at a significant income hit. Of course, this year with so many of you seeing ideal planting conditions, this may be hard to fathom, but look at the opportunity cost of downtime at planting time. Say a piece of machinery goes down on April 16 and stops all planting, and you are 50% done. However, the repair will take two days. By April 18 it starts raining and the skies don't clear until May 10 (it's happened right you guys in Ohio?). So now you're planting the rest of that crop later, which we know digs into yield. What did that planter downtime really cost? It's more than the $2,000 repair bill. You have to factor in the lost solar energy of not having that seed in the ground for those three weeks and the potential multi-bushel hit on all those acres. I know this is usually in the back of your heads, but there's what I call the "temporal disconnect." You see the immediate repair bill, but the true yield loss hits your balance sheet later and would appear as an unrelated expense. It's a kind of hidden cost because of the time difference between a downed planter and a lower yield. Yet it's there. If you're looking for ways to tighten machinery management take the dealer up on scheduled downtime that doesn't hit your planting, spraying or harvesting duties. In addition, consider contingencies - including renting a machine to keep moving. That rental charge won't be higher than the risk of yield losses that can hit your bottom line. Just something to ponder from the tractor cab this most wonderful spring. Enjoy planting, and here's wishing you continued safety and equipment that keeps on running. If you have a downtime story to share, make a comment below (just remember to do the math so your comment shows up - it's a trick we use to keep the robots from spamming us).


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Swimwear this season ranges from the monokini, a one-piece suit that's cut to resemble a bikini, $98, modeled by Kaitlyn Swicegood, left, to a retro tie-dye cover-up by Lucky Brand, $64, modeled by Lorean Mays. Fashions courtesy of Dillard's.
Kaitlyn Swicegood shops for swimsuits that show off her curves.
Juliane O'Neal shops for swimsuits that cover hers.
"I look for something that is the most flattering on me because I'm not going to be swimming anyway," said Ms. O'Neal, who said her age is 60-something. "If I wear a two-piece, it has to hit me in the right places. I won't be swimming in it. I'm going to be lying on the beach. If the suit has a pretty cover-up, then that's even better."
Ms. Swicegood, 20, said her No. 1 priority when buying a swimsuit is a good fit.
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"Every swimsuit fits every body type differently. I have bigger hips and curves, so I look for something that contours to my body. I need the swimsuit to fit to my body, because I can't make my body fit to the swimsuit."
Earleen Roper, swimsuit consultant at Dillard's, said that although there are guidelines to buying swimsuits, nothing substitutes for an in-person fitting. Try it on, stand back and get a good, multi-angle look, she said.
And if you can't find a swimsuit that fits perfectly, the alternative is to buy the suit and a coordinating cover-up.
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"I haven't bought one in awhile," she said, noting that she owns five suits. "The one I wear the most is about 5 years old."
Ms. Swicegood said she has more than 20 swimsuits, adding new ones to her collection most every summer.
"My oldest one is 8 years old," she said. "I matured early and never changed much after that. So if I have a piece of clothing I really like, such as swimsuits, I'll keep it forever."
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Drs. John and Janice Schweitzer, Johnson City, are announcing the engagement of their daughter, Kathleen Beatrice Schweitzer, to David Jesse Arwood, son of Roger and Melinda "Ermine" Arwood, Elizabethton.
The bride-elect is a 2007 graduate of Science Hill High School. She is a 2011 graduate of St. Louis University and a 2013 graduate of East Tennessee State University. She is employed by Curlee Communication Consultants as a speech pathologist.
Kathleen is a granddaughter of the late Dr. Barney and Lillian Finkel and Jack and Joyce Schweitzer.
Her fiancé is a 2004 graduate of Hampton High School. He is a 2008 graduate of ETSU, a 2010 graduate of Milligan College and a 2012 graduate of Lincoln Memorial University. He is employed as a teacher in the Carter County School System.
David is a grandson of the late B.A. and Reondas Farthing Lipford and the late Jess and Minnie Arwood.
The wedding will take place on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013, at 2 p.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Johnson City.


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Gary Pearce, the veteran Democratic strategist, weights in GOP Rep. George Holding's shut eye in his blog Talking About Politics.
"The government is shut down, so Congressman George Holding got some shuteye. On camera," Pearce said.
"At the moment one of his Republican colleagues declaimed, "It's about time to do what's right for the whole country," the distinguished gentleman from North Carolina was catching a few winks. CSPAN's camera caught him. Unfortunately for Holding, he was presiding over the House at the time.
"Now, I will not criticize Congressman Holding. I feel his pain. It was the House. It was a Republican congressman speaking. It was 3:36 pm. A lot of us need a mid-afternoon shot of caffeine. Read the entire post here.


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This is something which I've always been interested in seeing, a sabermetric scouting report. It's not perfect but it's a nice first step. Hopefully Fangraphs will find a way to incorporate something like this on their player pages.
Recently, for the electronic pages of Baseball America, Therron Brockish provided a scouting report from the Arizona Fall League on Boston third-base prospect Garin Cecchini. As part of that report, Brockish graded each of Cecchini's tools on the 20-80 scale (or 2-8 scale, depending) commonly utilized by scouts, where 50 represents major-league average and every 10 points is equal roughly to a standard deviation from same.
The tools are useful as a concise but meaningful instrument by which to summarize a player's strengths and weaknesses. Because most players in the baseball universe (including minor leaguers and amateurs, as well) are below major-league average, even a 50 grade is a pretty big deal. Cecchini, for his part, received a future grade of 70 on his hit tool from Brockish and about a 50, give or take five points, on the other four traditional tools (power, speed, fielding, arm).
Owing mostly to how Therron Brockish has 20 years of experience as a scout and how I, Carson Cistulli, have 20 years experience mostly in just feeling ashamed of myself, I have no interest, really, in commenting upon Brockish's assessment of Cecchini. An exercise in futility, is what that would be. I'm well-enough acquainted with futility already that I don't need to go seeking it out on purpose.
Nor are the particulars of his report really my concern for the moment. What is my concern is attempting to answer a question that has probably occurred to me somehwat vaguely in the past, but, for reasons that are mysterious, presented itself more clearly because of Brockish's report. The quesion is this question: "If one takes for granted that Cecchini is likely to be a 70 hitter and a basically average everything-else, what does that mean in terms of his likely value so far as WAR is concerned?" Or, phrased more broadly: "Is it possible to 'translate,' as it were, all the grades for the five tools into a WAR value?"
What follows represents a mostly responsible attempt, I think, at answering those questions. Answers have been facilitated greatly by a rough WAR calculator of the author's own invention, but constructed also with no little help from Bradley Woodrum's De-Lucker. Note, finally, that I've used 550 plate appearances as the baseline for an offensive player, for this reason: a batter with league-average rates in everything and 550 plate appearances produces a 2.0 WAR — i.e. the sort of WAR generally associated with a league average player.
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IndicBand is a Internet Explorer Toolbar which enables you to write emails, blogs, and search in Indian languages. You can use IndicBand in your favourite email-client like GMail, Yahoo! Mail, Rediff Mail etc., and search in search-engines like Google, Altavista etc.
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Why are multi-disc collections of old music still valuable in an era of downloads retrieved from nearly boundless clouds? Because these box sets and greatest-hit collections do something that's difficult for mere links to accomplish. By combining dozens of carefully chosen tracks with photos and extensive notes into one integrated package, these reissues do more than merely serve up a bunch of music; they present an argument. Like a lawyer in the court of public opinion, the compilers and annotators are arguing that these particular tunes, placed in the context of these particular notes, make the best possible case for this artist, theme, or sub-genre.
Below are four new reissue packages that open a door on artists who never became household names but whose music can still grab hold of us across decades and miles. Whether the music was made by Southern Appalachian hillbillies in the 1920s, suburban garage-rockers in the 1960s, or West African dance bands in the 1970s, these tracks are important not only for what they tell us about the past but also for what they tell us about our own struggles with love, money, and meaning in the present.
The Return of the Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of (Yazoo/Shanachie, 46 tracks, two CDs, 54-page booklet) Harry Smith's famous 1952 Anthology of American Folk Music mined the obscure blues and hillbilly 78s from the late 1920s and early '30s and influenced everyone from Bob Dylan to the Grateful Dead. Smith chose wisely, but he hardly exhausted this particular well of music. Fellow collectors such as Nick Perls, Richard Nevins, Dave Freeman, John Fahey, Joe Bussard, and Dick Spottswood made their own discoveries.
This new box set is a sequel to 2006's The Stuff That Dreams Are Made of, a compilation of some of the rarest sides these other collectors found. The new set's booklet evokes the culture of early '60s record collecting, when Fahey and Spottswood would spend their summers between college semesters driving to the Mississippi Delta, knocking on shack doors in search of Charley Patton records. Those trips preserved some great recordings that might otherwise have been lost forever. The world would surely be a poorer place if it no longer possessed such sublime performances as Patton's "High Water Everywhere," Charlie Poole's "Milwaukee Blues," Geeshie Wiley's "Last Kind Word Blues," Uncle Dave Macon's "Sail Away Ladies" and Blind Willie Johnson's "Jesus Make up My Dying Bed." This new box also includes seminal Cajun recordings by Dennis McGee and Leo Soileau, and two of the finest versions of "Stack-O-Lee,"as performed by both the Fruit Jar Guzzlers and Furry Lewis.
Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time and End Time Music, 1923-1936 (Tompkins Square, 42 tracks, three CDs, 64-page booklet) This set stems from a very recent record-collecting discovery. In 2010, after collector Don Wahle died, boxes of 78s were discovered in his home. Wahle's interest was early country and gospel music, so these are white artists from the pre-Depression, rural South. Organized into three categories (as enumerated in the title), these performances will be new to all but the most fanatical collectors, and they are strangely original in a way that the most desperate-for-novelty rock band can never quite match. The North Carolina Hawaiians prove as exotic as their name. The Allen Brothers use kazoo and tenor banjo to protest the encroachment of chain stores on local businesses in 1930. There are also timelessly riveting vocals from Gid Tanner on "Work Don't Bother Me," Buell Kazee on "Poor Boy Long Ways from Home," and Ernest Phipps on "If the Light Has Gone out of Your Soul."
Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-68 (Rhino, 27 tracks, two LPs, four-page booklet) In his liner notes for this vinyl reissue and first U.S. stand-alone CD release of the vastly influential 1972 collection, compiler (and longtime Patti Smith guitarist) Lenny Kaye confesses that he used Nick Perls' blues reissues on Yazoo Records as a model for how to repackage forgotten music for a new audience. Instead of 1920s blues 78s, however, Kaye was picking songs from recent singles and albums by rock 'n' roll bands already half-forgotten after one semi-hit. Kaye had a good ear for finding the keepers among the flood of releases pouring out from a planned-obsolescence record industry. Tracks such as the Standells' "Dirty Water," the Knickerbockers' "Lies," the Remains' "Don't Look Back," and Nazz's "Open My Eyes" deserved a much longer life than they'd first recieved.
The Rough Guide to Highlife (World Music Network, 21 tracks, two CDs, 12-page booklet) If you're looking for good introductions to world music, England's Rough Guide compilations tend to be more rigorously curated and annotated than the Putumayo collections that are so ubiquitous in chic non-music stores. A good example is this one, which focuses on one specific genre—rather than pretending African music is all the same thing. Compiled by Rachel Jackson, this set offers an historical overview of the highlife music that flourished in Ghana and Nigeria in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. It was bouncy, infectious music, featuring punchy horn sections, lilting guitar figures, calypso rhythms, and American R&B vocals, all combined with local folk music. It remains as intoxicating today as it must have been then.
The collection begins with a 1969 party single from Fela Kuti when he was a highlife bandleader, before he invented Afrobeat and turned political. It backtracks for such Ghanaian pioneers as the Black Beats Highlife Dance Band and Koo Nimo, then demonstrates how the music changed when it crossed the border into Nigeria, where it generated such giant hits as Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe's "Osondi Owendi" and Gentleman Bobby Benson's "Taxi Driver."
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